Minimum job charge?
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- fyoucher10
If it's small changes to a project you already completed, I do it for free. Clients love free shit. Shit, everyone loves free shit. Those are the times that you need to take advantage of shit like that. It's like sending a Xmas present when it's not even Xmas. I'm not talking about spec-work-type-shit.
If it's a small job (not changes to a current job but a new project), like it takes you an hour or less, charge a few hundred bucks or if they're a big client of yours -- just do it for free.
Being cool with your clients gets your loyalty from them a lot of times. In return, they return to you with more work -- that you charge good money for.
I have a few big ad agencies and a couple of direct clients that I work for. I do free shit for them all of the time, no matter what time of the day or week. A few of them have come to me for over 100 projects in just 6 or so years and each account for a very big chunk of change a year for me. Those are the ones you bend over backwards for. You not only do shit for free, you follow up constantly and make sure everything is buttery smooth along the way...even way after a project is completed. This is where working retail and learning customer service helped me out when I was young.
- Yup, the psychological benefit of 'no problem, we'll do a quick change for free' goes a long wayformed